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From the Minonk News-Dispatch, August 23, 1979
The Albert Mingers home was built between 1896-1898 at the site now occupied by the
Heritage Manor Nursing Home at 201 Locust. It had the same floor plan as
the other Mingers home built at the southeast corner of Locust and Fifth which
is now used as the Victorian Oaks Bed and Breakfast. Albert Mingers was an associate
of Mr. C. R. Danforth of the Minonk State Bank. Shortly after Mr. Danforth's
death, Mr. Mingers retired and moved to Long Beach, CA where his descendants
still live.
This home eventually
became the site of the Woodord County TB Sanitarium. In 1953 Don Kirkton
bought the home and started the Kirkton Nursing Home. In 1966 a new facility
was built to the south of the old Mingers home and the patients were moved from
the old home to the new facility which was called Minonk Manor. The Mingers
home then became a shelter care and eventually closed. It was torn down in
1979 and eventually became the site of the present Simater Home for sheltered
care.
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The picture above shows rare deer that were kept in the pasture south
of the Mingers house. The photo was taken in 1899.
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